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Date:      11 Mar 2003 22:52:09 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg-comment all gone...
Message-ID:  <44fzptnswm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030312030120.Y2461@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz>
References:  <20030312030120.Y2461@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz>

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William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> writes:

> Not that I've got anything against it or anything, but I've noticed that
> recent ports tree cvsups have wiped out most of the pkg-comment files.

They were moved into the makefiles, to save inodes.

> When did this policy change happen, because I can't see anything about
> it from googling?  No criticism though: I always found pkg-descr much
> more useful.

It has been discussed for many months now, and the changeover was
first attempted some time ago.  There's a lot of information in the
mailing list archives.

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